Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world's most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands.

The 4-Hour Work Week

Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan - there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, or just living more and working less, this book is the blueprint. Includes more than 50 practical tips and case studies from readers (including families) who have doubled their income, overcome common sticking points, and reinvented themselves using the original book as a starting point.

Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos and Luck - Why Some Thrive Despite Them All

Ten years after the worldwide best seller
Good to Great, Jim Collins returns with another ground-breaking work, this time to ask: Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Based on nine years of research, buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories, Collins and his colleague, Morten Hansen, enumerate the principles for building a truly great enterprise in unpredictable, tumultuous, and fast-moving times.

Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business

Do you have a grip on your business, or does your business have a grip on you? All entrepreneurs and business leaders face similar frustrations: personnel conflict, profit woes, and inadequate growth. Decisions never seem to get made, or once made, fail to be properly implemented. But there is a solution. It’s not complicated or theoretical.

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

Why do naturally talented people frequently fail to reach their potential while other far less gifted individuals go on to achieve amazing things? The secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a passionate persistence. In other words, grit. MacArthur Genius Award-winning psychologist Angela Duckworth shares fascinating new revelations about who succeeds in life and why.

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

Popular blogger Cal Newport reveals the new key to achieving success and true meaning in professional life: the ability to master distraction. Many modern knowledge workers now spend most of their brain power battling distraction and interruption, whether because of the incessant pinging of devices, noisy open-plan offices or the difficulty of deciding what deserves their attention the most. When Cal Newport coined the term
deep work on his popular blog,
Study Hacks, in 2012, he found the concept quickly hit a nerve.

Key Person of Influence: The Five-Step Method to Become One of the Most Highly Valued and Highly Paid People in Your Industry

Every industry revolves around Key People of Influence. Their names come up in conversation. They attract opportunities. They earn more money. Many people think it takes decades of hard work, academic qualifications and a generous measure of good luck to become a Key Person of Influence. This audiobook shows you that there is a five-step strategy for fast-tracking your way to the inner circle of the industry you love. Your ability to succeed depends on your ability to influence. Start now by listening to this audiobook.

48 Laws of Power

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws. This bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other infamous strategists.
The 48 Laws of Power will fascinate any listener interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control.

Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow Rich is the number-one inspirational and motivational classic for individuals who are interested in furthering their lives and reaching their goals by learning from important figures in history. The text read in this audiobook is the original 1937 edition written by Napoleon Hill and inspired by Andrew Carnegie - and while it has often been reproduced, no updated version has ever been able to compete with the original.

Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action (Int'l Edit.)

Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? Even among the successful, why are so few able to repeat their successes over and over? People like Martin Luther King, Jr.; Steve Jobs; and the Wright Brothers might have little in common, but they all started with why. Their natural ability to start with why enabled them to inspire those around them and to achieve remarkable things.

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change

In
The Power of Habit, award-winning New York Times business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. With penetrating intelligence and an ability to distil vast amounts of information into engrossing narratives, Duhigg brings to life a whole new understanding of human nature and its potential for transformation.

Black Box Thinking: The Surprising Truth About Success

Columnist for
The Times and best-selling author of
Bounce: The myth of talent and the power of practice, Matthew Syed argues that the key to success is a positive attitude to failure. What links the Mercedes Formula One team with Google? What links Dave Braisford's Team Sky and the aviation industry?What is the connection between the inventor James Dyson and the footballer David Beckham? They are all Black Box Thinkers.

Stephen R. Covey's book,
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, has been a top seller for the simple reason that it ignores trends and pop psychology for proven principles of fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity. Celebrating its 15th year of helping people solve personal and professional problems, this special anniversary edition includes a new foreword and afterword written by Covey that explore whether the 7 Habits are still relevant and answer some of the most common questions he has received over the past 15 years.

Unshakeable: Your Financial Freedom Playbook

After interviewing 50 of the world's greatest financial minds and penning the number-one
New York Times best seller
Money: Master the Game, Tony Robbins returns with a step-by-step playbook, taking you on a journey to transform your financial life and accelerate your path to financial freedom. No matter your salary, your stage of life, or when you started, this book will provide the tools to help you achieve your financial goals more rapidly than you ever thought possible.

Big Data: Using Smart Big Data, Analytics and Metrics to Make Better Decisions and Improve Performance

Get smart - learn to convert the promise of Big Data into real-world results. There is so much buzz around big data. We all need to know what it is and how it works. But what will set you apart from the rest is actually knowing how to use big data to get solid, real-world business results - and putting that in place to improve performance. Big Data shows you how to implement the same practices that leading firms have used to access new dimensions of profitability.

Winning

Jack Welch knows how to win. During his 40-year career at General Electric, he led the company to year-after-year success around the globe, in multiple markets, against brutal competition. His honest, be-the-best style of management became the gold standard in business, with his relentless focus on people, teamwork, and profits.

The E-Myth Seminar: Taking Charge of Your Business and Your Life

Eighty percent of all businesses fail in their first five years! When you are facing down those kind of odds, you'd better know exactly what you are doing before you take the plunge. Success lies in the system! Gerber knows that for a business to be prosperous it must function like a powerful machine. The type of business is irrelevant - a precise system of dynamic interplay between the connected parts should be in place.

The Gratitude Effect

How would you like to go to the next quantum level - beyond the world of simply "positive thinking"? Are you ready to experience new levels of inspiration, creativity, and achievement? Well, now you can! Let
The Gratitude Effect open your heart, inspire your mind, awaken your inner powers and hidden seeds of greatness. Allow it to help you break through any limiting beliefs and guide you to a more empowered life filled with deeper meaning and awareness.

Publisher's Summary

Imagine discovering what successful people have in common, distilling it into a set of simple practices, and using them to transform your company, your career, and your life. Written by three thought leaders in organizational development and self-improvement, including Built to Last co-author Jerry Porras, Success Built to Last challenges conventional wisdom at every step. It draws on face-to-face, unscripted conversations with hundreds of remarkable human beings from around the world. Meet billionaires, CEOs, presidents of nations, Nobel laureates, and celebrities. Meet unsung heroes who've achieved lasting impact without obvious power or charisma. Famous or not, almost all started out ordinary.

Above all, discover why successful people stay successful and how you can too.

Why it's so damn hard to do what matters, and what you can do about it

See what you have in common with people who have impacted the world we live in, such as Nelson Mandela, Charles Schwab, and Maya Angelou

Learn how these enduringly successful people harvested their victories and failures, and found the courage to follow their passions

The audio edition of Success Built to Last includes a variety of bonus materials, including audio excerpts from interviews with former President Jimmy Carter, Senator John McCain, Dell Computers CEO Michael Dell, and writer Maya Angelou. Co-authors Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery, and Mark Thompson also give insight into the creation of, and the research behind, Success Built to Last.

What the Critics Say

"You can make a difference if you put your passions to work in a way that builds a better life for you, your business, and your community.
Success Built to Last shows you how." (Steve Forbes, Editor in Chief,
Forbes)
"Everyone wants success, but you can do better than that. This is an extraordinary book that finally reveals a meaningful 'secret formula' for success based on the lives of remarkable people." (Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Brands)
"If you're crazy enough to do what you love for a living, then you're bound to create a life that matters.
Success Built to Last wisely counsels you to go nuts about something meaningful. That's what you're here to do, for heaven�s sake." (Herb Kelleher, Chairman and Cofounder, Southwest Airlines)

My first audible.com book and it was a great way to start. An interesting book that builds on the Good to Great concepts but applies it to the leadership traits of enduringly successful people. Whether you aspire to be this or not will not be changed by this book, but it does provide some great insight and self evaluation opportunities into what has truly driven successful people. It helped to bridge the gap between the hype in some books about finding your meaning in life and some real examples where this has occured. It will cause you to think about what you are passionate about and whether this drives enduring satisfaction in your life that could impact others. A mix of narrators in the book helped break it up and make it an enjoyable listen.

18 of 19 people found this review helpful

Paul A Redfern

12/07/07

Overall

"great book"

I listened to this prior to hearing Good to Great. It was a good introduction. The stories of successful business leaders are inspiring. It provides a treasure trove of anecdotes for business motivation.

2 of 2 people found this review helpful

Pocket Empire

Auckland

08/03/11

Overall

"I lost interest fast"

Not much substance to this one idea - do what you love or you are doomed - which is delivered in a hard sell style which is a big turn off. I turned it off after hearing one of the writers attribute the term " irrational exuberance" to Alan Greenspan. Life's too short to listen any further

4 of 5 people found this review helpful

Douglas

New Rochelle, NY, USA

17/03/08

Overall

"Stay focused"

A good business book discussing attributes common to all truly successful people. Focuses on getting results and going forward.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Terry Ray

Cumming, GA

07/05/11

Overall

"I couldnt wait for it to end...."

I'm sure this is much better as a book. There is some good information and stories but it was so hard to make it through. The narrators are dreadful and hard to listen to.

2 of 3 people found this review helpful

Jim

Upperville, VA, United States

24/09/17

Overall

Performance

Story

"interesting and inspirational"

I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in learning about leadership it is very well structured and easy to follow.

0 of 0 people found this review helpful

Cliff

12/02/16

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Performance

Story

"Serial Entrepreneur and Board Member"

A good message with positive data to backup the authors' hypothesis. I look forward to putting my new knowledge to work with my clients.

0 of 0 people found this review helpful

K$

22/01/15

Overall

Performance

Story

"Structure of personal development"

If you're at all familiar with personal development authors, this book reiterates their teachings in a more 'business'-like manner. While it does not go into detail onto how to effectively apply the given knowledge (simple call to action is not enough for some people) it's a good read IF you're already familiar with the principles it discusses.

0 of 0 people found this review helpful

victor

MANZANILLO, Mexico

02/03/12

Overall

Performance

Story

"Good for motivation"

This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

People willing to hear something motivating for our every day lives.

What was most disappointing about the authors’s story?

Too much common sense. Examples of succesful people that many business book take.

Really I don't remember, but for me English is a foreing language and l like when people have good diction so I can understand 100%.

Any additional comments?

Good luck, but I'll continue searching for other good business and self improvemente audiobooks.

0 of 0 people found this review helpful

Phil

Washington, Dc, United States

30/10/11

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Performance

Story

"Unreadable b/c of dreadful performance"

There is probably some good content in this audiobook, but listeners will never know it because the clipped narration renders the book unbearable and impossible to follow. The narration is INCREDIBLY fast, as if the narrator was in a tremendous hurry. It is frequently difficult to tell where sections end because the narrator rushes through things so fast and with such monotony. I am a big fan of audiobooks, but I highly recommend potential listeners/readers avoid this book.

0 of 0 people found this review helpful

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